Recognition for Wokingham Borough Council website
Wokingham Borough Council’s re-launched website has been recognised in a national communication industry award.
The website received a commendation in the Good Communications Award, organised by PSE events and held at the Marriott Grosvenor Hotel in London on Wednesday May 30. The awards aim to encourage local and national government to communicate effectively with residents and to highlight good communications practice.
Wokingham Borough Council website manager Nick Spencer, who coordinates the website with assistant Bridie Berry, said: “It was encouraging to be recognised in these awards and it is a tribute to the hard work of the many staff members who update the website. However there is still a lot to be done before we get to the level we want it to be at and this recognition is a timely motivational boost to keep us moving forward. We will continue to work hard towards our aim of providing an easy-to-use and accessible website for all the Wokingham borough’s residents.”
Wokingham council’s website provides information on services, policies and meetings as well as interactive functions such as online bill payment and the facility to comment on planning applications and public consultations online. It also provides residents with the latest news and events from the borough council.
The website has been designed to be as accessible as possible and attracted an increasing number of visitors - total page impressions have more than doubled from 800,372 in April 2006 to 1,620,921 in April 2007.
The council’s champion for information and communications technology Cllr Philip Mirfin said: “I am delighted the recent improvements to the website have been recognised in this way. I know that it will improve, offering better, more interactive services to our residents as we move forward with our customer focused approach to information and communications with our residents.”
The website received a commendation in the Good Communications Award, organised by PSE events and held at the Marriott Grosvenor Hotel in London on Wednesday May 30. The awards aim to encourage local and national government to communicate effectively with residents and to highlight good communications practice.
Wokingham Borough Council website manager Nick Spencer, who coordinates the website with assistant Bridie Berry, said: “It was encouraging to be recognised in these awards and it is a tribute to the hard work of the many staff members who update the website. However there is still a lot to be done before we get to the level we want it to be at and this recognition is a timely motivational boost to keep us moving forward. We will continue to work hard towards our aim of providing an easy-to-use and accessible website for all the Wokingham borough’s residents.”
Wokingham council’s website provides information on services, policies and meetings as well as interactive functions such as online bill payment and the facility to comment on planning applications and public consultations online. It also provides residents with the latest news and events from the borough council.
The website has been designed to be as accessible as possible and attracted an increasing number of visitors - total page impressions have more than doubled from 800,372 in April 2006 to 1,620,921 in April 2007.
The council’s champion for information and communications technology Cllr Philip Mirfin said: “I am delighted the recent improvements to the website have been recognised in this way. I know that it will improve, offering better, more interactive services to our residents as we move forward with our customer focused approach to information and communications with our residents.”
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